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A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center Center Organization & Management Jill Szczesek, Managing Director

Management Mission A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center • Value the efforts of Center investigators and support them in their research and initiatives • Manage existing resources for all BioXFEL activities, and seek out new sources of support • Contribute to the BioXFEL collective decision-making process • Support the educational, knowledge transfer, evaluation and other non-research aspects of BioXFEL, and bring creative energy to their development and advancement • Understand and appreciate the impact of the research being accomplished

BioXFEL STC Chronology A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center October 2013 - The BioXFEL STC was selected out of a group of 268 applicants (As well as MIT and Harvard) November 2013 - A press conference was held announcing the Center December 2013 - Recruitment and hiring begins for multiple positions

BioXFEL STC Chronology A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center February 2014 - BioXFEL STC Strategic Planning at ASU March 2014 - External Advisors Meet in Buffalo at HWI May 2013 - First Review of new Collaborator Proposals June 2014 - First Annual Site Visit

Upcoming Activities A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center August 2014 - Data Analysis Workshop at LBNL January 2015 - Second International Conference of the BioXFEL STC March 2015 - Second Annual Meeting of the BioXFEL External Advisors Committee

Organizational Structure A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center UB Vice President NSF Leadership BioXFEL External for Research Team Advisors Director Scientific Director Principal Investigator Director of Staff Managing Education and New Co- PI’s & ASU Program Knowledge Scientist Director Diversity Director Collaborators Participants Manager Transfer Associate Scripps Associate DESY Director ASU Stanford Admin. HUBzero Institute Director Scientist at ASU Assistant Team at UB University of UWM Cornell Pittsburgh Education Coordinators Coordinator Consultant (2) UCSF UB/HWI Assessment Museum Consultant Partners Rice LBNL University LLNL BioXFEL Internal CFEL Industrial Affiliates Steering Committee

Steering Committee A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center Name Role Institution Eaton Lattman Center Director University at Buffalo John Spence CoPI, Scientific Director Arizona State University Petra Fromme CoPI Arizona State University Abbas Ourmazd CoPI University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Edward Snell Collaborator University at Buffalo George Phillips Collaborator Rice University Robert Stroud Collaborator University of California- San Francisco Margarita Dubocovich Education Director University at Buffalo Kenneth Tramposch Knowledge Transfer University at Buffalo Thomas Furlani Computation Director University at Buffalo Jill Szczesek Managing Director Hauptman Woodward Institute

Science and Technology Center Committee of External Advisors A National Science Foundation Member Affiliation Expertise Nora Berrah University of Connecticut Laser spectroscopy; BESAC member Dirksen Bussiere Novartis Industrial Martin Caffrey Trinity College Dublin Membrane protein crystallography Wah Chiu Baylor EM single particle Henry Frierson University of Florida STEM education and diversity Teresa Head-Gordon UC Berkeley X-ray and dynamics Victor Lamzin EMBL Hamburg Algorithms Stefano Marchesini Lawrence Berkeley National Lab X-ray holography Keith Moffat, Chair University of Chicago X-ray kinetics, large facilities James Naismith University of St. Andrews European XFEL; crystallography

Council of VPRs A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center • Met most recently in May 2014 • Aiding in the efforts to secure additional funds for the Center • Have committed institutional resources – Staff – Technology

Science and Technology Center Strategic BioXFEL Committees A National Science Foundation • Administrative Contacts of Each Campus • University at Buffalo Management Group • BioXFEL International Conference 2015 – Ed Lattman & Abbas Ourmazd, Co-chairs – John Spence – Henry Chapman – Richard Neutze

Management Oversight A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center • Mechanisms to Track Progress – Data tracking software being developed with UC Davis • Personnel • Institutions • Activities- ie. beamtime applications • Publications and media – Annual Review of Center Collaborators – Web tracking with Goggle Analytics and HUBZero

Media Coverage A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center • Since November 2013 – 78 pieces of media • Television • Print material • Web publications

Nature- January 2014 A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center

Science and Technology Center Annual Collaborator Review A National Science Foundation • Both new and initial collaborators will be reviewed – The BioXFEL Steering Committee will gauge progress toward intended Center projects – Beamtime submissions and secured time – Collaborative initiatives – Publications attributed to the Center

Science and Technology Center Web Tracking and Social Media A National Science Foundation

Collaboration with LBNL A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center BioXFEL and LBNL August 2014 Data Analysis Instructors Paul Adams (LBNL) Anton Barty (DESY) Wolfgang Brehm (Uni Konstanz) Aaron Brewster (LBNL) Johan Hattne (HHMI) James Holton (LBNL) Karol Nass (Max Planck Institute) Christopher O'Grady (SLAC) Nick Sauter (LBNL) Thomas White (CFEL) Nadia Zatsepin (ASU) Oliver Zeldin (Stanford)

Web Registrations A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center

Science and Technology Center Communication Systems A National Science Foundation • GoToMeeting is utilized for monthly Steering Committee meetings as well as meetings of the graduate students and postdocs • Social media accounts are being utilized to communicate with the Center members and those with XFEL interests • Three videos have been created with varying intended target audiences

Recruitment A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center • Support is provided centrally for new Center opportunities – JOIN US segment on the wesbite – Positions have been advertised nationally and internationally – Recent hires • DESY Staff Scientist, Marc Messerschmidt • UB Staff Scientist, Tom Grant • Education Coordinator, Anthony Hutchinson

New Collaborations A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center • Four new scientific collaborators have joined BioXFEL – Formal application process with abstract – Submissions reviewed and selected by the Steering Committee • Guillermo Callero, University of Pittsburgh • Vadim Cherezov, Scripps Institute • Joseph Luft, Hauptman Woodward Institute • Alexandra Ros, Arizona State University

New Partnerships A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center • Adult’s Night Out at ASC – May 2014, Dr. Brenda Hogue • Buffalo Science Museum Science Café – August 2014, Dr. Eaton Lattman • Installations in the creative process for both locations

Year 1 Resources A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center Arizona State University $1,124,804 Cornell University $229,550 Hauptman Woodward Institute $1,378,157 Miami University of Ohio $45,241 Stanford University $229,550 Univeristy of California- Davis $55,019 University at Buffalo $964,426 University of California- San Francisco $229,550 University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee $505,006 William Marsh Rice University $229,550 Total Award $4,990,853

Year 1 Unobligated Funds A National Science Foundation Science and Technology Center Cornell University Estimated- $91,802 Hauptman Woodward Medical Institute Estimated- $314,173 University at Buffalo Estimated- $209,624 University of Wisconsin‐Milwaukee Estimated- $252,562

Science and Technology Center BioXFEL International Conference A National Science Foundation Ponce, Puerto Rico January 14-16, 2015 Primary areas of discovery will include femtosecond nanocrystallography; time- resolved imaging & spectroscopy; single particles; and instrumentation & algorithms.

Science and Technology Center Management Targets for Year 2 A National Science Foundation • External sources for additional resources • Expanded museum partnerships • Industry partner support for the annual conference • Development of stronger internal and external communications